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SHADE HOLDER CLAMP FOR OHILDRBNS GARRIAGES. No. 341,272; Patented May 4,1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. PEARCE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHADE-HOLDER CLAMP FOR CHILDRENS CARRIAGES.

.JPEGIIXCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,272, dated May 4,1886.

Application filed December 30, 1885. Serial No. 187,168. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PEARCE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inClamping Devices for Shade-Holders for Carriages, of which the followingis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanyingdrawings, wherein Figure l is an elevation of a baby-carriage, showing asun-shade, its holder, supportingbar for the latter, and a clamp forsaid bar embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a face view of the clampand set-screw for the shadeholder bar, a portion of the latter beingshown. Fig. 3 is a section on line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is an elevationof the shadeholder and a part of the bar to which it is attached; andFig. 5 is a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 4.

My invention has relation to clamps for the rod or bar supporting thesun-shade holders of baby-carriages or other vehicles and to thesun-shade holder; and it has for its object to provide a clamp for theshade-holder bar or rod in which the latter is vertically adjustable foreither raising or lowering the shade, and by means of which said rod orbar can of itself be adjusted or oscillated laterally more or less toplace the shade at different angular positions on either side of thecarriage to protect the occupant.

My invention has for its further object to combine with said clamp andvertically ad 5 justable and laterally moving rod or bar a shade-holderfor placing the shade either to the front or back or to either side ofthe occupant of the carriage and at different angles in any of itsadjusted positions independently of the adjustment afforded by the useof the clamp for the shadeholder rod. 7

My invention accordingly consists, first, of a clamp composed of abase-plate, a rotating ring, and a swiveled socket or frame engagingwith the ring to holditin place, and having an opening for the passageof the sun-shade holder bar, and a set-screw for the bar, which alsoengages with the ring, whereby when the setscrew is loosened the bar isadapted to be either adjusted vertically or oscillated from side toside, or both of these manipulations may be performed, and when theset-screw is the latter upon the base-plate to firmly main-.

tain the bar in its adjusted position.

My invention further consists in combination with said clamp and bar ofa sun-shade holder composed of a socket attached to or depending fromone end of a bar arranged at right angles to the socket, which bar hasat its other end an upwardly-projecting pin terminating in a ball, aframe movable upon the shade-holder bar, into which passes said ball, aloose block in the lrame shaped to conform to the ball, to provide abali-and-socket joint between said frame and shade socket-bar, and a setscrew for said frame to fasten it and clamp the shade socket or holderin position upon the shade-holder bar, whereby the shade maybe moved toany side or end of the carriage and adjusted in different angularpositions from a horizontal plane.

My invention still further consists of the combination, construction,and arrangement of detail parts, as hereinafter more particularlydescribed and claimed.

In the drawings, A represents a baby-carriage, vehicle, or otherfixture; B, the sun shade or umbrella; O, the shade-holder; D, the bentor bowed shade-holder bar, and E the clamp for said bar.

The clamp E consists of preferably a round skeleton or other base-plate,6, having lugs at with openings for the passage of screws or otherdevices for fastening the same to a fixture, and of a loose ring ordisk, 6, having preferably a downwardly projecting edge flange, e, tofit over the periphery of the outer surface of base-plate e, as moreplainly shown in Fig. 3. Upon the outer face of ring 0 are notches f fand at right angles to one another, the sides of each of these notchespreferably converge or incline toward each other from above downward tomake the notches more or less wedge shape, as illustrated.

To the center of plate 6 is swiveled in any suitable manner, or as shownat g, a socket or frame, G, having an elongated opening, g, a set-screw,g and side lugs, g, which enter notches f in ring e", as plainly shownin Figs. 1 and 2, to cause said socket or frame to engage with the ringand keep it in position upon base-plate 6, so that it cannot fall off,be

displaced, or lost when the clamp is not at-" tached to a fixture.

The opening g in socket G is in line with the other diametrical notchesf, as shown, so that the bar D must engage with these last-named notchesas it is passed through thesocket-opening 9. hen the setscrew 9 isloosened, the rod or bar D slides loosely in the socket-opening g andthrough the ring-notches f,- hence the bar may then be raised orlowered. At the same time the ring e'-, bar D, and socket G may berotated or oscillatedfrom side to side across the back of the carriageto place the bar at an angle to the perpendicular, and, as a shade orumbrella attached to said bar pal-takes of said movements, it maytherefore be raised or lowered and also adjusted to an angular positionon either side of the carriage to protect the occupant thereof. VVhenthe set-screw g is turned or screwed up, it impinges against rod D,whichin turnimpinges against the sides of the wedge shaped notches f of ringe,,to firmly clamp the rod to the ring and the ring to the baseplate tomaintain the rod and shade in their adjusted positions.

Any form of shade-holder may be used; but I have shown a described formof same as it can be manipulated to place the shade in an angularposition without giving a lateral move ment to bar D; but the lattercoacts with said holder in so far that the height of the shade can onlybe varied by vertically adjusting bar D.

The holder 0 consists of a socket, 0, depending from one end of a bar,0, which has at its other end an upwardly-projecting pin, c",terminating in a ball, 0.

H represents a socket or frame having elongated vertical slot or openingh, and a bottom opening, h. Through the latter passes the pin 0 of bar0, so as to place ball 0 within said frame. This is done before the pin0* is connected to bar 0 in putting the parts of the holder together,and whereby said frame and holder are connected.

Through opening h passes rod D, and between it and the top of the ball 0is a loose block, L, having a concave or semispherical under side, toform a bearing, t, for the ball 0, andprovide a ball-andsocket joint orconnection between frame H and holder-bar c. The top of block L ispreferably grooved, as shown at z", to fit around the bar D.

At the top of frame H is a set-screw, If. By loosening screw h andturning frame H about rod D the shade can be either adjusted todifferent angular positions on either side of the carriage, or the bar 0may be rotated in its bearings to move the shade toward the front or tothe back of the carriage, and be made to assume any angular positionwithin the range of movement of the ball-and-socket joint of bar 0. Bytightening screw it the frame H is drawn upwardly to clamp the ball 0"between the lower end of frame H and block L, and the latter to the rodD, to fasten the frame to said rod and hold or firmly secure the rod 0and shade in their adjusted positions.

What I claim is l. The clamp E, composed of a base-plate, a loose ringhaving notches or recesses on its outer face, and a swiveled socket, G,engaging with said ring, and having a set-screw, g, substantially asshown and described.

2. A clamp, E, composed of a base-plate, a loose ring, and a swiveledsocket having a setserew and engaging with said ring, in combinationwith a bar passing through said socket and engaging with said ring,whereby the bar is adapted to be raised orlowered and rotated oroscillated from side to side, as set forth.

3. The combination of plate 6, loose ring 6*, having right-angle notchesf f, socket G, swiveled or journaled to plate 6, and having opening 9,set-screw g and lugs g, for engagement with one set of the notches onring 0 substantially as shown and described.

4. A clamp composed of a base-plate, a loose ring, and a socket swiveledto said baseplate, and having a set-screw, and engaging with the ring toretain it upon the base-plate,

substantially as shown and described.

5. In combination with rod D and clamp E, of a frame, H, on rod D, andhaving a set screw, 7L2, a loose block, L, in said frame, and ahorizontally-rotating shade-holder bar, 0, having a ball-and-socketjointwith said block and frame, as set forth.

6. In combination with rod D and clamp E, constructed substantially asshown and described, the holder O, composed of frame H,

having set-screw it, loose block L, bar 0, having atone end ashade-socket, c, and at the other a ball-andsocket connection with saidframe and block, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE V. PEARCE.

WVitnesses:

S. J. VAN STAYOREN, OHAs. F. VAN HoaN.

